Clearing content of text file using C#

Question

How can I clear the content of a text file using C# ?

Answer 1

File.WriteAllText(path, String.Empty);

Alternatively,

File.Create(path).Close();

Answer 2

Just open the file with the FileMode.Truncate flag, then close it:

using (var fs = new FileStream(@"C:\path\to\file", FileMode.Truncate))
{
}

Answer 3

 using (FileStream fs = File.Create(path))
 {

 }

Will create or overwrite a file.

Answer 4

You can clear contents of a file just like writing contents in the file but replacing the texts with ""

File.WriteAllText(@"FilePath", "");

Answer 5

Another short version:

System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(path, new byte[0]);

Answer 6

Simply write to file string.Empty, when append is set to false in StreamWriter. I think this one is easiest to understand for beginner.

private void ClearFile()
{
    if (!File.Exists("TextFile.txt"))
        File.Create("TextFile.txt");

    TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("TextFile.txt", false);
    tw.Write(string.Empty);
    tw.Close();
}

Answer 7

You can use always stream writer.It will erase old data and append new one each time.

using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(filePath))
{                            
    getNumberOfControls(frm1,sw);
}